IJN Editorial Staff
Tzedakah: Yes, it’s a duty in Israel, too
IJN Editorial StaffDec 12, 2012
Reading a comment of the head of Chicago’s federation, we almost said, “O for the halcyon days when federations dictated what a community thought, and had to...
Palestinian amnesia at the United Nations
IJN Editorial StaffDec 06, 2012
It took 65 years. But finally the world recognized. Finally! So says Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Really? It took 65 years, for the world? You have...
Chemical weapons in Syria
IJN Editorial StaffDec 06, 2012
The US is threatening Syria, if Syria should use its chemical weapons. Good policy. Bad timing. Wrong strategy. The time to threaten Syria was when it began its civil...
Verbal Xmas dilemma
IJN Editorial StaffDec 06, 2012
It’s the first week in December. Christmas carols jingle in the marketplace and parking is as challenging as first-year calculus. Undeterred, a Jewish woman in search...
Dire implication of Israel’s eight-day war in Gaza for Iran’s nuclear ambition
IJN Editorial StaffNov 29, 2012
If Israel, under three prime ministers, has warned that Iran’s nuclear program poses an existential threat to Israel, then why has Israel not attacked Iran? Why has...
That glorious day 25 years ago
IJN Editorial StaffNov 29, 2012
“We do it for the kids” is a frequent rationale for standing up and doing the right thing. The thing is, ironically, by the time the kids get old enough […]
Jean Kauvar, 1918-2012
IJN Editorial StaffNov 21, 2012
Jean Kauvar left us this week in ripe old age after a valiant struggle with blindness. And struggle she did, to retain the wide range of her intellectual, social and...
‘Jerusalem is an Islamic holy site,’ so why are Muslims firing on it
IJN Editorial StaffNov 21, 2012
Hamas says it is a defender of Islam. Yeah. Right. That’s why Hamas fires missiles on Jerusalem. Some Muslim holy place. As for Hamas’ protestations of peace, even...
Who started the fighting in Gaza this time?
IJN Editorial StaffNov 21, 2012
Israel will tell you that it launched massive attacks on Gaza in response to earlier, unprovoked missile attacks into Israel from Gaza. Hamas will tell you that its...
A smear campaign we like
IJN Editorial StaffNov 21, 2012
On Sunday, while rockets were flying out of Gaza into Israeli cities and Israeli airstrikes were targeting terrorist hotbeds in Gaza, quite a different scenario was...
